Dec 17, 2014 - Sale 2371

Sale 2371 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
EMIL BIORN (1864-1935) POSTER MAKERS OF THE CHI • PHOTO • ENG • CO. Circa 1895.
11x8 inches, 28x20 1/4 cm. Chi. Photo. Eng. Co., Chicago.
Condition A. Hinged to mat at top edge. Paper.
In addition to being an illustrator, Norwegian-born Biorn was also a conductor, sculptor and painter. He worked in Chicago around the turn-of-the-century and studied at the Art Institute. In 1929, he designed a poster for Chicago's South Shore Line Railway. One of Chicago's many printing houses in the last decade of the 19th Century, the Chicago Photo Engraving Company printed posters, calenders and more.